The founder of the Focus Ireland has said the homelessness crisis has now deepened to an unprecedented level.<\/p>\n
Sister Stanislaus Kennedy made her remarks ahead of the publication of the charity’s annual report which show the number of households it supported out of homelessness last year reached its highest ever level.<\/p>\n
Focus Ireland was set up in 1985, and 40 years on, its founder has said it was shameful that there are now over 16,000 people homeless – among them 5,000 children.<\/p>\n
Sr Kennedy said governments have repeatedly failed on housing, and called for more social and afforable homes.<\/p>\n
The charity’s Annual Report for 2024 says it supported 1,209 households out of homelessness – up 10% on the previous year and its highest number to date.<\/p>\n
Over 450 young people were helped by its youth and aftercare services.<\/p>\n
It said though, prevention remains more difficult – it recorded 276 successful homeless prevention outcomes last year – falling short of its 600 target.<\/p>\n
The charity’s housing arm delivered 167 homes in 2024, the aim was for 250.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The founder of the Focus Ireland has said the homelessness crisis has now deepened to an unprecedented level.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-9329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}